RETRO: EASTERN & CENTRAL IOWA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1972

[jh]

Friday, October 27, 1972

From the Des Moines Register

Cedar Rapids 2-WMT (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 Price in Right
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart Is
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:00 News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Lite
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Secret Storm
3:00 Family Affair
3:30 Dr. Max (local, cartoons)
4:30 I Dream of Jeannie
5:00 Truth, Consequences
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News
6:30 Protectors
7:00 Sonny, Cher
8:00 CBS Movie
10:00 News
10:30 Movie
12:30 Last Word


Waterloo 7-KWWL (NBC)

7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sale of Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What or Where
11:55 News
12:30 Three on a Match
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Return to Peyton Place
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Virginian
5:00 Green Acres
5:30 NBC News
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 Little People
8:00 Ghost Story
9:00 Banyon
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight
12:00 12 O'Clock High


Cedar Rapids 9-KCRG (ABC)

8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 George Patrick (local interview)
9:30 Underdog
10:00 All My Children
10:3O Bewitched
11:00 Password
11:3O Split Second
12:00 News
12:30 Let's Make Deal
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 Gilllgan's Island
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 ABC News
5:30 News
6:00 Wild Wild West
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Partridge Family
8:00 Room 222
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Love, American Style
10:00 News
10:30 Movie



Iowa Public Television
Des Moines 11-KDIN
Iowa City 12-KIIN

9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educ.
12:30 Electric Coompany
1:00 Educ TV
3:00 Western Civilization
3:30 Crafts
4:00 Mr. Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 What's New
6:00 Carrascolend.
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Washington Week
7:30 Wall Street week
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre
9:00 Of Lands and Seas
10:00 Family Game
10:30 Art, Football
11:00 (11) Horror Film
(12)Toy Grew
It was rare for them to split the stations. I think KCRG had the rights in
Cedar Rapids-Waterloo to the horror films.



Ames 5-WOI (ABC)

7:30 Astro Boy
8:00 Hooky (cartoons?)
8:30 Magic Window (local children)
9:00 Schooltlme
9:30 Mike Douglas
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Password
11:30 Split Second
12:00 News
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 Gilllgan's Island
4:00 Daniel Boone
5:00 I Dream of Jeannie
5:25 News
5:30 ABC Mews
6:00 Truth, Consequences
6:30 Movie "Captain Pirate" (1953)
8:00 Room 222
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Love, American Style
10:00 News
10:30 Dick Cavett


Des Moines 8-KRNT (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Breakfast Club (local)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mary Brubaker (local)
9:30 Price is Right
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart Is
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:00 News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Lite
1:30 Edge, Night
2:30 Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Secret Storm
3:00 Family Affair
3:30 Munsters
4:00 Lucy
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 Sonny, Cher
8:00 CBS Movie
10:00 News
10:30 Movie
12:45 Name of the Game


Des Moines 13-WHO (NBC)

7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sale Of Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What or Where
12:00 News
12:15 Cartoons
12:30 Movie
2:00 Another World
2:30 Return to Peyton Place
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Floppy (local cartoons)
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:30 NBC News
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:3O Little People
8:00 Ghost Story
9:00 Banyon
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight
12:05 Takes Thief


Fort Dodge 21-KVFD (NBC)

7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sale of Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What or Where
12:00 News
12:30 J. Carson (?)
1:00 Bingo (local?)
1:30 Mantrap
2:00 Another World
2:30 Return to Peyton Place
3:00 Somerset
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4:00 Kitchen (local)
4:30 Stump Stars
5:00 Encounter (?)
5:30 NBC News
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 Little People
8:00 Ghost Story
9:00 Banyon
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight

KVFD picked up NBC over the air from WHO,
so they had to fill from 12:30-2pm when
WHO ran a movie. This is a rare day they
didn't run "Film Feature" someplace.


Ottumwa 3/KTVO (ABC-CBS)

7:30 Blackwood Brothers
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Samson
9:30 Popeye
10:00 Mantrap
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Password
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:00 News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life toLive
3:00 Love, American
3:30 All My Children
4:00 Split Second
4:3O Let's Make Deal
5:00 News
5:30 ABC News
6:00 News
6:30 Lucy
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:3O Partridge Family
8:00 Room 222
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Love, American Style
10:00 News
10:30 Dick Cavett

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Were there no listings in this issue of the DM Register for other markets serving Eastern Iowa: Davenport/Rock Island/Moline (Quad Cities IA/IL) or even Quincy/Hannibal? In the old days of their Sunday TV insert they also included those markets' stations in those listings.

 

[azumanga]

What the titles should be specified in italics below.

Cedar Rapids 2-WMT (CBS)

1:00 Guiding Lite Light
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
5:00 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Sonny and Cher
8:00 CBS Movie "The McKenzie Break"
10:30 Movie (according to an earlier Iowa thread from 1973, all CBS stations in this region carried "The CBS Late Movie". If so, tonight's movie was ""Land Raiders".)

Iowa Public Television
Des Moines 11-KDIN
Iowa City 12-KIIN

6:00 Carrascolendas
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre ("Vanity Fair," Chapter 4)
11:00 (12)The Toy that Grew Up

Des Moines 8-KRNT (CBS)

4:00 Lucy ("I Love Lucy" or "The Lucy Show"?)

Des Moines 13-WHO (NBC)

12:05 It Takes a Thief


Fort Dodge 21-KVFD (NBC)

12:30 J. Carson (?) (should be "Joanne Carson's VIPs".)
4:00 Eve's Kitchen (local)
4:30 Stump the Stars

Ottumwa 3/KTVO (ABC-CBS)

6:30 Lucy (again, "I Love Lucy" or "The Lucy Show"?)

 

[jh]

Were there no listings in this issue of the DM Register for other markets serving Eastern Iowa: Davenport/Rock Island/Moline (Quad Cities IA/IL) or even Quincy/Hannibal? In the old days of their Sunday TV insert they also included those markets' stations in those listings.

No, it did have Omaha, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Mankato, Mason City-Rochester-Austin, and St. Joseph, MO. But that was way too much typing.

I don't know if the Register had another edition of the Sunday TV insert that included the Quad Cities and Quincy-Hannibal in 1972. In the 60s, it included all those markets. I know they eventually had a western Iowa edition that had Des Moines and everything west, and an eastern Iowa edition with Des Moines and everything east.

 

[jh]

What the titles should be specified in italics below.

Thanks for the additions. The Register's listings were rather cryptic, I tried to fill them
in where I could.

10:30 Movie (according to an earlier Iowa thread from 1973, all CBS stations in this region carried "The CBS Late Movie". If so, tonight's movie was ""Land Raiders".)

I forgot about checking the movies. In 1972, the CBS Movie apparently wasn't very popular...

Movie: 2-WMT
"Call Me Madam" (1953)

Movie: 8-KRNT
"The Oscar" (1966)

WOW/6 in Omaha and KMEG/14 in Sioux City also ran local movies.

And at 11:00 on IPBN:
Horror Film Festival: 11-KDIN
"Curse of the Cat People." (sounds like one of the movies KCRG ran on their Saturday "Creature Feature.")

Toy That Grew Up: 12-KIIN r'The Bells;" Lionel Barrymore,
Boris Karloff.

 

[SteveRichards]

In 1972, the CBS Movie apparently wasn't very popular...

Some CBS affiliates were known for pre-empting "The CBS Late Movie" on Friday nights to air a local movie instead. Some of those affiliates delayed the Friday "CBS Late Movie" to Saturday or Sunday nights.

 

[RyanHoward]

Please post listings for Saturday 10/21/1972 and Sunday 10/22/1972.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I don't know if the Register had another edition of the Sunday TV insert that included the Quad Cities and Quincy-Hannibal in 1972. In the 60s, it included all those markets. I know they eventually had a western Iowa edition that had Des Moines and everything west, and an eastern Iowa edition with Des Moines and everything east.

Whenever I had seen those older Register Sunday TV inserts (up to at least the '90s), it was always the "eastern Iowa edition" that included DM, Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Kirksville/Ottumwa, plus Mason City/Rochester/Austin, Dubuque, and LaCrosse, WI in addition to the forementioned Quad Cities and Quincy/Hannibal.

Could there have also been a "third edition" of the DM Register TV insert just for the immediate Des Moines area? I had seen one from early 1990 (when my parents had to travel that way one weekend and picked up a Sunday paper there) that only had Des Moines/Ames channels plus all the cable channels (with DM cable system channel numbers). Or were the statewide listings briefly dropped for a time, then restarted (my next encounter with the Register TV insert wasn't until about '92 and it was back to the statewide listings--eastern Iowa that is).

Now IIRC the Register TV insert is just limited to Des Moines/Ames market channels and selected cable channels.

 

[azumanga]

Papers that had wide circulation over a vast area usually had more than one edition of their TV magazine -- one for the metro area and another for out-of-town areas. I know that the Louisville Courier-Journal, Detroit Free Press, Detroit News and the Toledo Blade have (or had) such editions.

The Courier-Journal had a statewide TV magazine edition with listings for all Kentucky stations, plus out-of-state stations in areas bordering Kentucky. The Free Press' statewide TV magazine had listings for all Michigan stations, plus Toledo, Sarnia, and SSM Ontario, but not South Bend, Chicago or Green Bay.

Until the 1970s, the St. Petersburg Times used to have three editions of their TV magazine -- one for the Tampa Bay area, another for northern and central Florida (with listings for Orlando, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Panama City and Pensacola, but not Albany, Dothan or Mobile), and one for south Florida (with listings for Sarasota, Fort Myers, Palm Beach and Miami). Around the mid-1970s, the Times discontinued listings for out-of-area channels other than Sarasota, Gainesville and Orlando.

 

[jh]

Whenever I had seen those older Register Sunday TV inserts (up to at least the '90s), it was always the "eastern Iowa edition" that included DM, Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Kirksville/Ottumwa, plus Mason City/Rochester/Austin, Dubuque, and LaCrosse, WI in addition to the forementioned Quad Cities and Quincy/Hannibal.

Yes, and the western Iowa edition had DM/Ames, Ft Dodge, Mankato, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Omaha, St.Joseph.

Could there have also been a "third edition" of the DM Register TV insert just for the immediate Des Moines area? I had seen one from early 1990 (when my parents had to travel that way one weekend and picked up a Sunday paper there) that only had Des Moines/Ames channels plus all the cable channels (with DM cable system channel numbers). Or were the statewide listings briefly dropped for a time, then restarted (my next encounter with the Register TV insert wasn't until about '92 and it was back to the statewide listings--eastern Iowa that is).

Now IIRC the Register TV insert is just limited to Des Moines/Ames market channels and selected cable channels.

Yes, I think there was a Des Moines area edition, although it may not have started until the 80s when they started listing a lot of cable channels.

But this still doesn't explain the odd one from 1972 that listed all of those markets except Quad Cities/Quincy-Hannibal. With the way the listed each station separately, maybe there just room for all but five stations, and maybe there was another edition that listed everything except possible Omaha and St. Joseph?

I did find a Sunday TV section from 1968,and it lists all of the stations, but there's less room for "program highlights."